limit to number of lines timeline can display (964)

I faced this issue today and a solution I came up with is to set some layers "shy" and hide them.

I came across this issue for a couple of years, where I had to animate hundreds of individuel triangles.

This was a scenario, where pre-comping woulnd't help (or make things even more complex), since all triangles have been connected with expression to place them and animated them with an offset. It's quiete impressiv what you can do with some little offsets in a massive scale.

However, I don't think AE is optimized for such task. You have to precompose your layers. That's the intended AE workflow (in my case back then I didn't needed the layers to the visible in the timeline - they got their 100 lines expressions and could react to an input and that's all what I needed).

Your timeline tells me, that you are editing something. You have a lot of video clips arranged in time without overlapping. That's exactly what Premiere Pro is for.

*Martin

Fair enough, but if a scripts creates 900+ layers it's perhaps not the smartest script, either. A script developer has the same responsibilities as any user. I maintain my view on the matter - for most users it will never even factor in, so I simply consider it irrelevant at this point.

Mylenium

Not sure what you are asking. Having so many layers in a single comp is insane. How can you even work? No offense, but this sounds like you expect Adobe to fix an "issue" which for 99.9 percent users never even comes into play. I'm sure the devs know it, but really, it must be somewhere near the bottom of their list of priorities, given the circumstances. You might consider a better workflow by using pre-comps and otehr stuff to structure your project more efficiently in the meantime.

Mylenium